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A lot of that iMac's cost is its retina display, and you didn't bother buying a retina display for the PC. Running a speed test is silly, there are already major differences in the build. To make this remotely more scientific, you'd either need to buy a 4k monitor for the PC, or use a Mac Pro and just take the monitor out of the equation.
4000USD is a lot of money. That seems like an odd setup. Not having ever wanted to buy a machine for that amount of cash, I'd expect to do better with multi-socket systems. Anyone care to chime in? I struggled to spend over 1K GBP with my latest machine. (I think 'Extreme Edition' is basically like buying the S version of a car, mind). i7-5820K, 64GB ram. One thing that does stick out is an odd monitor comparison. Th…
In their situation I think processing time is the bottleneck or at least a major factor. They probably see every penny back in productivity gains.
A lot of that iMac's cost is its retina display, and you didn't bother buying a retina display for the PC. Running a speed test is silly, there are already major differences in the build. To make this remotely more scientific, you'd either need to buy a 4k monitor for the PC, or use a Mac Pro and just take the monitor out of the equation.
4000USD is a lot of money. That seems like an odd setup. Not having ever wanted to buy a machine for that amount of cash, I'd expect to do better with multi-socket systems. Anyone care to chime in? I struggled to spend over 1K GBP with my latest machine. (I think 'Extreme Edition' is basically like buying the S version of a car, mind). i7-5820K, 64GB ram. One thing that does stick out is an odd monitor comparison. Th…
The rest is on the GPU
4000USD is a lot of money. That seems like an odd setup. Not having ever wanted to buy a machine for that amount of cash, I'd expect to do better with multi-socket systems. Anyone care to chime in? I struggled to spend over 1K GBP with my latest machine. (I think 'Extreme Edition' is basically like buying the S version of a car, mind). i7-5820K, 64GB ram. One thing that does stick out is an odd monitor comparison. Th…
Lightroom has a single core CPU bottleneck, multisocket is pointless for the this use case. The rest is on the GPU
Basically, is the whole article just nonsense? :)
I'm not a Apple fan, but I find most of these tests are counting seconds and then extrapolating that to actual work time, which I don't think actually maps as well as the author thinks. The exception to this is 'smart previews' test which shows a 6.5 minute difference. I've asked the creator of fileloupe ( http://www.fileloupe.com/ ) if his app would improve the performance of this one test. I know nothing about phot…
Right. His mapping it 1-to-1 implies that most of the time is bound by computer tasks. So there would be almost no viewing/decision/input task time, just some rapid input, then walking away from the computer.
These comparisons are silly. Now imagine it's a BMW vs someone's project car both with the same $$$ invested. Yeah, the project car will probably smoke it. But not everyone wants a project car.
60 hours is easily lost when some piece on your custom rig dies and you don't have apple care.